Meanings
adjectiveprerejection (not comparable)
- not comparablePrior to rejection.
These prerejection and postrejection communications were then rated by trained, independent judges along a number of dimensions designed to reflect the child's strategy for attaining acceptance and to reveal alterations in strategy.
1981, Steven R. Asher, John Mordechai Gottman, The development of children's friendships, page 331
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